A social media-loving schoolgirl killed herself after spending hours in her bedroom trying to get likes on her posts.

Ruby Seal, 15, who lived in Carlisle, Cumbria, would spend evenings and weekends attached to her smartphone switching between different profiles.

In February 2017, after a row with her mother about racking up a £200 phone bill and posting online but receiving no response, Ruby took her own life.

Now mother-of-three Julie, 42, has called for social media to be banned for under-16s and said: 'I'm sure if social media wasn't a thing Ruby would still be with us.'

Ruby Seal, 15, who lived in Carlisle, Cumbria, took her own life in February 2017 after nobody responded to a social media post she had made. Her mother Julie, pictured together, is now campaigning for Ruby's Law which would see social media banned for under-16s

Julie said that in extreme cases Ruby would spend hours locked in her bedroom posting several photos and statuses a day in a desperate bid to get likes.

In a bid to stop her, she switched of their home WiFi - but Ruby would use 4G instead and racked up data bills of £200 per month.

In the months leading up to her death the schoolgirl would share cryptic statuses and messages to her friends asking 'If this was my last day what would I do?' and memes claiming she was a 'disappointment'.